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Amazon Kiro IDE prompt injection enables data exfiltration via Kiro Powers

2026-08-27 21:01 UTC · The Hacker News · read the source ↗ #prompt-injection#ai-ide#data-exfiltration
  • Engineer — Plan: If your developers run Amazon Kiro IDE 0.7.45 on Windows, verify whether a patched version is available and update; the prompt injection → data exfiltration path via Kiro Powers is a real supply-chain risk for dev environments. No KEV or PoC signals elevate this to Act.
  • SOC/IR — Learn: No IOCs, active exploitation evidence, or ATT&CK-mappable detection surface are present; the item illustrates a prompt injection exfiltration pattern in agentic IDEs worth tracking as AI dev tooling becomes a threat surface.
  • Leader — Learn: Useful data point for AI tool governance: agentic IDEs can become data-exfiltration vectors via prompt injection, with no CVE or patch timeline disclosed yet — worth a line item when reviewing AI-assisted development tool policies.
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